{"id":132396,"date":"2026-03-07T20:04:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T20:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/132396\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T20:04:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T20:04:06","slug":"tornado-watch-in-effect-for-western-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/132396\/","title":{"rendered":"Tornado watch in effect for Western Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Weather Service in Pittsburgh has issued a tornado watch for the region as severe weather is expected to hit the area Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>The watch is in effect until 8 p.m. for all counties in Western Pennsylvania, including Allegheny, Fayette, Greene and Washington counties. Most of northern West Virginia and eastern Ohio are also included in the watch, which indicates a tornado is possible. <\/p>\n<p>The weather service has indicated that in addition to possible tornadoes, conditions are right for damaging hail and wind gusts up to 70 miles per hour.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Pittsburgh set a new record high of 77 degrees for March 7, breaking the previous record of 76 degrees set in 1983.<\/p>\n<p>Continue to monitor www.Observer-Reporter.com for more updates on the watches and potential warnings in the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The National Weather Service in Pittsburgh has issued a tornado watch for the region as severe weather is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2298,3140,182,43365,73,75,74,437],"class_list":["post-132396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-fayette-county","tag-greene-county","tag-local-news","tag-mon-valley","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-washington-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}